As overall crime continued to drop in Chicago in 2025, the city ended the year with the fewest homicides in 60 years.

Overall crime continued to drop as the number of murders in Chicago decreased from 587 in 2024 to 416 last year, when scores of federal immigration agents flooded the city and President Trump ...

Quinn Myers, reporter for Block Club Chicago, joins Jon Hansen, filling in for Lisa Dent, to discuss the reported number of ...

Chicago has seen fewer murders so far this year than any year since 1965, officials said. The city finished November down 25 percent in shootings, 20 percent in murders and 15 percent in overall crime ...

Chicago recorded 435 homicides in 2010, marking the city’s lowest murder rate in 45 years, according to preliminary statistics released Saturday by the Chicago Police Department. The 2010 total was ...

The weather event known as a derecho is a widespread summer storm capable of traveling thousands of miles with hurricane-force winds of up to 100 mph. A Spanish word, derecho (deh-ray’-cho) is the ...

Chicago is on pace to see its fewest murders in a half-century, officials said, marking a major turning point just one year after the violence-plagued city logged 500 homicides — the most of any city ...